This heartfelt, and wholly organic new album opens on Melody Gardot’s sultry blues within Your Heart Is as Black as Night and the gentle finger-snapper, swingtown wit of Catch 22, and then they are followed by the searingly upbeat and joyous melodies within the cautionary tale Red Velvet Rope (which is set to a sensuous Latin groove by cuatro master Kiki Valera), and then come the quietly-imbued balladry of Over and Done and then an despairingly aching tale is brought forth within The Boy That Lived There.
The Rising Relevance of Jazz In 2026 and Beyond
Given the dominance today of quickly produced digital content and trends set by algorithms, one might be forgiven for assuming that jazz might slowly fade into the background; on the contrary, it is fiercely alive. Not only is jazz surviving, but it is also quietly...
